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`.Le'tters Patent No. 717,663, elated M'ay 5, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN WASHBOILRS.

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`Be it known that I, I. D. SEELEY,'of Hudson, in the county of St. Croix, and State of Wisconsin, have invented a. new and. useful Improvement in Boilers for Use in Cleansing Clothes; and I do'hercby declare that .the following is a full, clear, and 4exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,

making part of this specification, in which-f Figure I is a perspective view, and Figure 2 is a verticaltransverse section. The sume letters in both figures are used to designate the same parts.

' My invention is intended to be applied to washing-boilers of the class described in llI.` W. Staples' patent, of February, 1867, in which the water is discharged on topof the clothes through vertical pipes leadingfrom the bottom of the boiler, and consists in adding to suoli pipes, iang'es, whieli,.extending across the boiler, near thenbottom, serve to promote a more rapid circulation.

I have shown in the annexed drawings one arrangement of parts. 'Other modifications will readily suggest themselves, but being merely equivalent modes, need not Vbe shown' in connection with this application.

A is the body ofthe wash-boiler,representedin the ordinary oblong form in' common use in cooking-stoves.

'I he form ofthe boiler is, however, immaterial. Within the boiler` are chambers, formed by plates B, enclosing` one or more compartments5'open below, and'having holes, B1, at the top, for the esca-pe of the water. Instead ofthe compartment formed, as shown, by a flat plate, a series of tubes of any form may be employed, widening Agradually from the top towards the bottom, when, whether one or more compartments ,are formed, the plates enclosing them are connected with an incline'dplate, B2, extending towards the oppositeside of .the boiler. I have shown, in fig. '2, two-ofthese ltransverse plates, B, extending from bpposite sides,y one over the other.

The space between two oppositely-extended plates, or between a single plate and the opposite side, must he sufficient to enable the water to ilow gradually through the same, but narrow enough, in conjunction with the clothes filling the boiler above said plates,to obstrnlet and prevent any rapid ilow of the water. '.lo increase the obstruction, such space may be filled with sponge, or other equivalent porou's snbstan`ce,`wl1ich willA transmit the Water slowly, but prevent its flowing in a rapid current. l

'The perforated plate C is placed in the boiler, to sustain .the clothes above the plates B2. rIhe boiler being `filled with water to a level a few inches above the plate C, and the clothes placed on saidplate, and the heat applied to the boiler, when the water begins to boil, prevented from rising into the chamber of the boiler by the plates 13" and the clothes7 it will be 'for-ced upwards through the space between tlic plate Band the shell of the boiler and poured in a continuons stream upon thc elothes,.ilowing downwards through the saine, carrying with its current the Yimpurities taken up from the clothes.

By this means the clothes will/under ordinary' conditionsA be cleansed without rubbing them, it being only necessary to rinse them when taken from'the boiler.

My invention is distinguished from that oi' M. WJ Staples', patented in February, 'l867,`and all others in -n'hich side-pipes 'are employed, in this, that-I add to the vertical pipes and'pcrferated platev upon which the clothes are placedthis further element, v'imthe inclined ilanges or plates B2, extending from the lower ter-- mination 'of the vertical tubes or compartments in near proximity to the bottom of the boiler,for the purpose of forming an obstructiontothe rising current of water and diverting it through the tubes, independently ot' the clothes placed upon the perforated plate, which in the'other boilers referred to forms the only impediment to theupward current. I do not claim the vertical pipes'inlependently,but only in combination with the What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure byv Letters Patent, is

In a washing-boiler, the vcombination of the plates I3, forming 'vertical compartments, thel transverse and diagonally-placed plates B2, forming a'continuous i'lnnge in extension of said plates B, and the perforated plate C, .placed above the anges B2, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two-subscribing witnesses.

i I. I). SEELEY.

Witnesses:

D. P. HoLLowAv, J. MeKnNNEY. 

